The Sensuous Dimension of Literary Experience
An Alternative to Materialist Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3152103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Altieri (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-98 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2007.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W2079905699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
I argue that three versions of materialist theorizing ironically fail to give adequate accounts of two basic features of literary experience-its ways of being sensuous and its manifestation of particular features of labor that can produce compelling singularity for the reader. Ultimately I reject materialist ontologizing because it is has now no significant other-our basic task is to characterize fully how sensuousness is achieved and put to work for the imagination
Aesthetics · Art · Dimension (graph theory) · Epistemology · Literature · Materialism · Pure mathematics · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Mathematics · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |